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A coffee shop loyalty program without the punch card

Customers join from their digital receipt and earn points on the drinks they buy. Your card purchases, Costco runs and supplier invoices are read and coded the day they arrive.

A customer paying with a phone at a café counter

Smartbills sends an itemized receipt from your POS with every sale, counts loyalty points from the items on it and codes your own purchases and supplier invoices as they arrive.

Loyalty that replaces the punch card

Customers join from their receipt, by text or email, or from the QR code at the counter. Points come from the items they buy, and you choose what earns them: the tenth latte, a pastry with a coffee, the early morning visit.

  • Join by text, email or QR code
  • Points per drink, pastry or time of day
  • The reward shows up on the next receipt

An itemized receipt with every order

Square, Toast, Clover, Lightspeed and Shopify POS send each receipt as the card clears, with every item, the taxes and the tip. Customers get it by text, email or the app instead of a paper slip.

  • No setup at each register
  • No account needed to open the receipt
  • Sales match up to the bank deposit

Card purchases and Costco runs, receipts included

The milk run, the Costco trip and the new grinder go on the card or come out of someone's pocket. A photo of the receipt, or the email it came in, is matched to the charge or sent for reimbursement, then posted to QuickBooks, Xero or Sage.

Supplier invoices coded as they arrive

Invoices from your roaster, dairy, bakery and packaging supplier come in by email, PDF or supplier portal. Each one is read and coded to coffee, milk, food or packaging before you sit down to look at it.

Why teams switch

The paperwork waits until after closing.

Punch cards get lost in wallets, and we still don't know who our regulars are.

Customers join from their receipt in one tap, and their next visit is recognized at checkout without a card to stamp.

The roaster, the dairy and the bakery all send invoices a different way, and they pile up by the register.

Each invoice is read and coded when it arrives, by email, PDF or supplier portal. The pile by the register stops growing.

Someone grabs milk at the grocery store with their own money, and the receipt ends up in a jacket pocket.

They take a photo of the receipt in the app, it's matched to the card charge or sent for reimbursement, and it reaches the books with its taxes.

The products that do the work.

Each product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

Pick a program customers can join without downloading an app, that works with your POS, and that counts what people order rather than visits alone. With Smartbills, customers join from their digital receipt or the QR code at the counter, earn points per item and see their reward on the next receipt. There is no card to print and nothing to install.

No. Customers join by text, email or the QR code at the counter, and everything works in a phone's browser. Regulars who already use the Smartbills app see their points next to their receipts, but no one has to download anything to earn or redeem a reward.

Square, Toast, Clover, Lightspeed and Shopify POS are connected at the platform level, which covers most cafés. If you run one of them, receipts and loyalty start without a setup project at each register. Shops on other systems can send receipts through the API.

Record each purchase when it happens instead of at the end of the month. Card purchases and out-of-pocket buys are captured from a photo or the email receipt and matched to the charge, and invoices from your roaster, dairy and bakery are read and coded as they come in. You can see what coffee, milk and food cost you while the month is still going.

Yes. They take a photo of the receipt in the app, you approve it, and it goes into their reimbursement with the receipt attached. The purchase lands in your books with its category and taxes.

Yes. You set the program up once and it applies to every register and location on your POS. A customer who joins at one shop earns and redeems at the others, and each location's invoices and costs roll up into one view.

Yes. Every customer can get an itemized receipt by text or email, or open it from a QR code, without creating an account. Joining the loyalty program is a separate choice, asked once and never a pre-ticked box.

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